REPORTING OF THE CORE INDICATORS ON DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION FROM URBAN SLUMS OF JAMMU: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY

Reporting of the core indicators on drinking water and sanitation from urban slums of Jammu: A cross-sectional study

Introduction: Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) play an important role in decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with poor WASH practices.Poor knowledge and awareness lead to an increase in communicable diseases.Objective: To assess and report the core indicators on sanitation and drinking water from urban slums using standardized WH

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Identification of distinct phenotypes related to benralizumab responsiveness in patients with severe eosinophilic asthma.

PurposeTo characterize the clinical phenotypes of severe eosinophilic asthma based on early responsiveness to benralizumab in terms of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) improvement.Patients and methodsSixty-four participants diagnosed with severe eosinophilic asthma and who had completed 4 months of benralizumab treatment were included in

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Heterogeneity in pneumolysin expression governs the fate of Streptococcus pneumoniae during blood-brain barrier trafficking.

Outcome of host-pathogen encounter is determined by the complex interplay between protective bacterial and host defense strategies.This complexity further amplifies with the existence of cell-to-cell phenotypic heterogeneity in pathogens which remains largely unexplored.In this study, we illustrated that heterogeneous expression of pneumolysin (Ply

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